Armin Assinger

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Armin Assinger Alpine skiing
Armin Assinger (2015)
Full name Armin Ignaz Assinger
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 7th June 1964 (age 56)
place of birth Graz , Austria
size 191 cm
Weight 94 kg
job TV presenter
Career
discipline Downhill , super-G
society SC Hermagor
status resigned
End of career March 1995
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut 15th December 1984
 Individual world cup victories 4th
 Overall World Cup 10. ( 1992/93 )
 Downhill World Cup 4. (1992/93, 1994/95 )
 Super G World Cup 8. (1994/95)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 3 2 2
 Super G 1 0 2
 

Armin Ignaz Assinger (born June 7, 1964 in Graz ) is a former Austrian ski racer and now a television presenter . He grew up in Hermagor in the federal state of Carinthia , graduated from BORG Hermagor in 1982 and was a gendarmerie officer until 1996 . In his skiing career, which was interrupted twice by serious injuries, he won four world cup races . At world championships and the Olympic Games, however, he remained without major success. Assinger has been a co-commentator on ski races since 1995 and has been the presenter of various television shows since 1999, including the millionaire show. He has been awarded the Romy TV Prize eight times .

Athletic career

Assinger achieved his first success in 1976 when he won the Carinthian student championships in giant slalom. In 1982 he became Austrian vice junior champion in downhill and combined, from 1984 he was a member of the ÖSV team. He contested his first World Cup race on December 15, 1984 on the Saslong in Val Gardena . In this descent he came in 30th place. A year later he drove back to the Saslong with rank 14 for the first time in the points and in February 1986 he reached third place in the second downhill from Åre and thus his first podium in the World Cup. In November 1986 Assinger suffered his first serious injury. After a cruciate ligament rupture in his right knee, he had to take a break for the entire winter. In his comeback season 1987/88 he came in six World Cup descents under the fastest 15. His best result was ninth place in Beaver Creek .

At the beginning of next winter , Assinger (start number 31) reached his second podium with second place in the first descent from Val Gardena on December 9th and in January he was among the fastest ten times in the double descent from Kitzbühel . Only a few days later, the Carinthian career suffered another serious setback. On January 18, 1989, he fell during downhill training on the Lauberhorn in Wengen in the upper part of the route and suffered several torn ligaments in both knees and ankle injuries. After several operations, he was only able to return to the ski circuit just two years later. In the 1991/92 season he reached two top 10 places in the runs from Val-d'Isère and Gröden.

On December 22, 1992 Assinger celebrated his first World Cup victory in the second Super-G of the 1992/93 season in Bad Kleinkirchheim , where he surprised outside the top runners (starting number 33). This was the first time he qualified for a major event, the 1993 World Cup in Morioka . There he came in a downhill characterized by difficult wind conditions but only in 14th place. The Super-G had to be canceled at all due to the bad weather. In March 1993 he celebrated two more victories in the downhill runs in the Sierra Nevada and in Kvitfjell and thus reached fourth place in the Downhill World Cup and tenth place in the overall World Cup. With his victory in the Sierra Nevada, Assinger set a world record that is still valid today: at 112.37 km / h, he achieved the highest average speed ever driven in a ski race.

In the 1993/94 season Assinger could not repeat the previous year's performance. His best results were third place in the Super-G in Lech and fourth in the Super-G in Wengen. In the downhill he was only one of the top ten. At the 1994 Winter Olympics he also fell short of expectations with eleventh place in the Super-G and 15th place in the downhill. On December 17, 1994, Assinger celebrated his fourth World Cup victory on the descent from Val-d'Isère, leading a four-fold Austrian victory. In January 1995 in Kitzbühel he was second in the downhill and third in the Super-G and third in the Lauberhorn downhill. With a further five top 10 places, he came in twelfth place in the overall World Cup in the 1994/95 season, fourth in the Downhill World Cup and eighth in the Super G World Cup. He still wanted to take part in the World Championships in Sierra Nevada (February 1995), but he did not get this further chance for precious metal at major events, as this event had to be postponed by a year due to lack of snow. After the 1994/95 season, Assinger ended his career as an active ski racer.

successes

winter Olympics

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G
space Points space Points space Points
1985/86 58. 27 21st 27 - -
1986/87 No results due to injury
1987/88 46. 23 19th 23 - -
1988/89 37. 38 16. 38 - -
1989/90 No results due to injury
1990/91 81. 5 33. 5 - -
1991/92 54. 161 18th 111 33. 50
1992/93 10. 533 4th 360 10. 173
1993/94 34. 255 20th 121 13. 134
1994/95 12. 542 4th 419 8th. 123

World Cup victories

Assinger achieved 10 podiums, including 4 wins:

date place country discipline
22nd December 1992 Bad Kleinkirchheim Austria Super G
March 15, 1993 Sierra Nevada Spain Departure
March 20, 1993 Kvitfjell Norway Departure
17th December 1994 Val d'Isère France Departure

TV presenter

During his second injury break in 1989/90, Assinger gained experience as a co- commentator for ORF at ski races. Since 1995 (initially at the side of Robert Seeger , since 2006 at the side of Oliver Polzer ) he has been commenting on and analyzing alpine ski races. In 1999, he unveiled the ORF show lucky (later "extreme"), since September 2002, he moderated, succeeding Barbara Stöckl the Millionaire show , the Austrian version of the program Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? From 2004 to 2009 he also hosted the Austrian broadcast of the Domino Day show . In October 2009, 16 Austrian celebrities were prepared for the big ORF ski “race” in a one-week training camp under Assinger's direction.

From October to December 2012 and February 2013, Assinger presented the program Einser Team on ORF eins . He helped families, institutions, communities, couples or individuals in need. Since 2014 he has also hosted the program “ 9 Places - 9 Treasures ” around the national holiday on October 26th. Since the end of March 2016 he has been giving fitness tips to imitate on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays “Moving into the day” as part of “Guten Morgen Österreich” on ORF 2. Since September 2018 he has also appeared in the quiz show I know everything! together with Günther Jauch and Susanne Kunz as "quiz giants" to be beaten.

In addition to his TV presence, he coaches in stress management and motivation seminars. He also published the book "Wo die Komantschen whistle". Assinger is the father of two children. He spends his free time mountain biking, golf and skiing.

Awards

In 1998 he was awarded the special prize of the jury for his ski reporting. From 2000 to 2002 Armin Assinger was awarded three times in a row with a Golden Romy as the most popular sports presenter and from 2003 to 2005 he received three times the Golden Romy as the most popular show & talk master. In 2005 Assinger moderated the Romy Awards himself. The conscious use of the Carinthian dialect is particularly noticeable in his moderation. For this he received the Bavarian language root from the Friends of the Bavarian Language and Dialects in August 2009 . As the price "before North Bavarian-Central Bavarian language root " had been called, but the Carinthian together with the Tyrolean the Südbairische forms, the name of the prize had to be changed. In the fall of 2009, Assinger was seen on the ORF reality show The Race .

Private

Assinger was married to his wife Bettina from September 24, 1994 to 2014 . The marriage had two children.

His younger brother Roland was also a ski racer.

Other activity

In the early 1980s, Assinger also played football for his home club SC Hermagor in what was then the minor league (4th level within Austria, based on the state of Carinthia). He is currently one of the three presidents of the club.

In 2010 he initiated an alpine ski competition for celebrities and amateur runners in the ski area around Hermagor (Naßfeld) under the name “Schlag das Ass” (subtitle “The longest ski race in the world”). The route is 25.6 km long, with the participants skiing several slopes in one go.

Movies

List of awards

  • Carinthian Sportsman of the Year 1993 and 1995
  • Eight times Golden Romy :
    • Special prize of the jury 1998
    • Most popular sports presenter in 2000, 2001 and 2002
    • Most popular show & talk master 2003, 2004 and 2005
    • Best entertainment 2013
  • Bavarian language root 2009

Publications

literature

Web links

Commons : Armin Assinger  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Assinger:" And today a victory! "" In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 9, 1988, p. 29 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ↑ Econ Referenten Agency: Armin Assinger ; accessed on Jan 26 2013
  3. ↑ Val d'Isere (FRA), Men's Downhill, December 17, 1994. fis-ski.com, accessed January 1, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Experts have the solutions ready. Kleine Zeitung , October 16, 2012, archived from the original on June 6, 2014 .;
  5. ↑ Idowa Mediendienst, your local newspaper: Dialektpreis "Sprachwurzel" awarded at the Gäubodenfest - Armin Assinger , Straubinger Tagblatt dated August 10, 2009
  6. ↑ tz.de : Bavarian Dialect Prize for an Austrian , August 10, 2009
  7. ↑ Armin and Bettina Assinger: Divorce!
  8. ↑ 40 years of the Carinthian Sports Press Club - 40 years of Carinthian sports history. (No longer available online.) Publicsport.pixelpoint.at, archived from the original on January 1, 2016 ; accessed on January 1, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Assinger, Armin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Assinger, Armin Ignaz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz , Austria